Paul Herdman (from left), Chester Finn and Vice President of the Charter School of Wilmington Samuel Paoli listen to Naman Agrawal and Kevin Ye give a presentation Friday on improving fuel.

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Kelly April Tyrrell
The News Journal

Kevin Ye explained to the room full of students how fuel cells work. This past summer, he developed and tested different types of the clean energy generators at the University of Delaware to learn more about improving their performance.

But Ye hasn't even yet been to the prom. The Charter School of Wilmington 11th-grader just became eligible for a driver's license.

Like the rest of the juniors at Charter - recently named one of the country's 165 most academically selective public high schools in a recent book by school reform expert Chester Finn - Ye and his project teammates, Naman Agrawal and ...